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		echoangle on Dec 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimb... > Unless the damage was done in malice it’s not a crime. It’s the owners negligence for not protecting their property Well that’s just wrong, the damage itself is not a crime but the leaving without paying part is. If I accidentally fall onto your parked car and leave a dent, do you think I can just leave because it wasn’t intentional?

mtnGoat on Dec 30, 2024 [–]

Stores and public places are different things, when you let customers touch your merchandise that’s your liability. You don’t have to like it or agree with it, but that’s the law.

echoangle on Dec 31, 2024 | [–]

Do you have a source that this is the law?

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